The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-25

| awhile for myself, and then I'll trust to
! YOU"
The pilot becomes angry and says;
81 will either take care Of this ship or
not. If you want to I will get into my
| yawl and go ashore or back to my boat y
Now we say 70 the Lord;
go, Col, take my life, take my all. in
! Thy keepingi Be Thou my guide, be Thou
l my pilot"
We 60 along for little while, and sud
| denly wake up and say;
''fhings are gong all wrong o, Lord.
! we are driving on these rocks and Thou
/ art going to let US be shipwrecked0
| God says: 'YOu go and rest. 1 will take
charge OF this vessel, and take it into the
I harbOr."
1t is Gods business to comfort, and it is
| our business to be comforted Herbert
the great thinker, philosophical about
| himself philosophical about this world,
l philos ophized about every thing; then. in
in his dying moments, asked that onlE
l one word might be cut upon his r0rnb
stone, and that word "InfeIrfssrnI1s,-
most unhappy-descriptive e the lives
ana OF tne deaths OF these who lake their
case out Of the lands az God. The onIv
| appropriate Inscription for their banonet-
~ ~, and their equipage, and the wall
, their eternal prison-hous e-'Infelicis.
SINUS" In drOoing, moral idiocv they
are scrabbling at the door OF their happi-
ness, which never opens; miserably play
| ing the fool
Again, I remark that all those persons
| play the fool as certainly as lid this man
OF the text, who allow the technicalIties of
| religion to stop their salvation David
was wise about great many things. but
| his cuttings-up in the text for a little
] while echpsed his Oh 1racter And /
know wise men and great men
competent for all other stations who
arHse sa#m iii
card 20 the technicalties of reli giou.
| They ask us some questions which we
can not answer categorfcally, and so they
| burst into broad guhaw, as though 1t is
I OF any more interest to US than It ought
1 to be 90 them. About the atonement,
4 about Gods DEGREES, about mans destiny,
/ they ask a great manv questions which
! we can not answer, and so thev deride US,
| as though we could not ask them a thou
| sand questions that they can not answer,
| about their eyes, about their ears, about
their finger nails, about every thing. A
Tool can ask a question that a wise man
can not answer o, you caviliug menl
o, you profound men! o, you learned
men, do please admit something You
| have a sOull Yes. Win it live forever4
/ Yes. Wheret You say that Jesus Christ
| IS not a divine Saviour. Who is hel Where
/ viii you go after you leave your law
| books, and your medical pres eriptions,
and your club-roOm, and your newspaper
! Once-Where viii YOU 90 tO2 Your bodv
viii be six feet UNDERGROUND Where will
! you soul BET The black coat will be off.
! the shroud on. Those spectacles. will be
| removed from your VISION, for the sod
VIII press your oye-Iids Have you
any idea tnat an earthly almanac d 3
scrl5es the years of your lifetime4 of
I What stuff shall 1 gather the material for
I the letters Of that word which describes
your eternal home} Shall il be iron chain
or amaranthine garlandl The air that
| bestirs the besweated locks Of your dying
pillow, Will it come OF a garden or a
desert3
Oh, quit the pulling questions and try
these nomentous questions. Quit the
/ small questions and try these great Ques-
tinns. Instead Of discussing whether the
| serpent IN Elem was ffgurative or literal,
| " nether the Mediterranean fish did or did
! not swallow the recrsant prophet, " neither
this and that and the other thing is right
! or wrOng @, come ana discuss the questio
! How shall get rid of my sins and win
| Heaveu!' That is the question for you.
( Yea, there have been men who have act
/ ually lOsttheir souls because they thought
| there was discrepancy between Moses
/ and Prof. Silliman-bscause they could not
| understand how there could be light
/ before the sun rose-the light appearing
/ IN verse three of Genesis, and the sun ap-
] PcdFluS not uuJlL verse SlNU96Q-auQ De-
/ cause they do not know how the moon
| could stand still without upset
| ting the universe, and because
/ they had decided upon the theory Of
natural selection. A German philosopher
/ in dying had for his chief sorrow that he
/ had not devoted his whole life to the study
/ of the dative case on. when your i'm
! mortality is in peril, why quibble3 Quit
/ these nou-essentials, my dear brother. In
| the name of God, 1 ask you in regard to
/ these matters Of the immortal soul that
| You do not play the fool
! What is that man doing in Bowling
/ Green, New York. Wen. ne is going in
/ for ticket for a transatlantic vova &c.
/ He is quarrelinQ with the clerk about the
4 spots-the red spots on the ticSet-and he
I is quarreling about the peculiar signature
| of the president of the steamship COM
/ pany, and he is quarreIng about the man
/ ner Of the clerk who hands him the ticket
1 How long has he been standing there2
/ Three weeks Meanwhile perhaps.
/ twenty steamers have gone out of port,
/ and I hear the shrek of the steam tug
/ that could take him to the last vessel that
I could bear him 20 his engagement in Lon
/ don. Still he stands in Bowling Green
! discussing the ticket.
! What 10 you say in regard To that mani
| You say he is a fool Wen, in that very
\ way are many men acting in regard to the
]
/ about the atonement, the red spots on the
/ ticket--about the character of the min
| ister who hands them the ticket-abOut
| whether it has n divine or human sigma
/ ture, and meanwhile, all their oppOrtuni-
! ties for Heaven are sailing out of the
/ harbor, and hear the last tap Of the bell
| announcing their last chance for Heaven.
! go still further, and say to you that
! those men play the fool who undertake to
pay out eternity for time. How little care
| do we bestow upon the railroad depot
I where we stop twenty minutes to dine
/ We dash in and dash out again. We do
/ not examine the architecture of the build
] ing, nor the face of the caterer. Wesup-
| ply our hunger, we pay our money and
| we put on our hat and take our place in
| the train What is that depot compared
| with the place for which we are
I bound. Now, my friends, thIs world is
/ only stopping place on the way to a mo-
mentous destination, and yet how many of
| us SIT down as though we had cOnsum-
1 mated our journey, as though we had
/ come to the final depot, when stopping
here is as compared with our stopping
there as is twenty minutes to twelve hours
/ yea, as the one-hundrcdth part Of q sec
| 0nd compared with ten thousand million
vearsl Would Spain sell us Cuba for a
bushel Of wheat} Would England sell US
/ India for ton of coali Would Venice sell
| us an her pictures for an American
| schoOI-boy's sketcht Ali that would be a
better bargain for England, Spain and
/ Venice than that man makes who gives his
| eternity for time. Yet how many there
| are who are saying today;
',Give me the worlds dollars and you
! may have the eternal rewards. Give me
the worlds applause and you may have